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Philae - ܦܝܠܘܢ

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"Located on an island in the First Nile Cataract, Philae was a major cultic centre for the goddess Isis. Traces have been unearthed that pagan rituals took place there until the mid-5th century, yet already since the early 4th century, Philae was also an episcopal see."1

Names

  • ܦܝܠܘܢ
  • Philae
  • ܦܝܠܘܢ2
  • Philae1

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates :
    • Lat. 24.025031° Long. 32.884252°3
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  • 1 Oliver Nicholson, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), p: 1183. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 189; 233chapter: 3.4.9; 3.4.10; 3.4.49. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Roger Bagnall et al., Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, JSON (https://zenodo.org/records/14828116: Zenodo, n.d.), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1193921, entry: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/786089